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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Abel
Given Name:
Conrad
Soundex Code:
A140
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Occupation(s):
Dyer
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Year of Immigration:
1745
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Port of Departure
City:
London
County:
Middlesex
Nation:
England
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1745
Place of Indenture
Town:
Philadelphia
County:
Philadelphia
Colony:
Pennsylvania
Master
Surname:
Prossius
Given name:
Nicholas
Title:
Tailor
Master
Surname:
Newman
Given name:
Jacob
Research Notes
Comments:
"The following vignettes capture the probate histories of some eighteenth-century servants. ... Conrad Abel arrived from London in 1745. He was first indentured to Nicholas Prossius, a Philadelphia tailor, and then to Jacob Newman, a Philadelphia resident whose occupation is unknown. Abel was to serve a total of eight years. In 1767, fourteen years after he had attained his freedom, Abel appeared on the Philadelphia tax list. He resided in Mulberry Ward, owned his own dwelling, and paid on an assessment of nine pounds. By 1772 Abel had a slave and was listed as a dyer. He died twenty-two years later with personal property valued at almost three hundred pounds, one of the highest inventory of any former servant." (1)
Source Citations:
Sharon V. Salinger, "To serve well and faithfully," Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 126, quoting "List of Servants and Apprentices, 1745-45," and City Hall Annex, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.